What Is the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen?

[Bazza]

I’ve seen one of those Captain America films. I think it was the first Reb Brown ones. If so, it’s not the worse superhero film. 

[death tribble]

The Reb Brown one was 1979.

 

The one I am talking about was 1990 and from Cannon films. Matt Salinger played Captain America.

[Bazza]

Yes. As i said I had seen one of the early film, and i think it was the one with Reb Brown. IT could have also been the Matt Salinger one. Either way, there are worse superhero films. 

[Old Man]

13 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

To me Attack on Titan is grotesque and disgusting, with their leering, sexless giant cannibalistic mockeries of humanity

 

Good, that's exactly what they're supposed to be.  Much like Giger's Alien.

 

13 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

That's not my response to gore or nudity as such, but I feel like I'm watching the working out of some sort of fetish beyond my comprehension.

 

Naked giants without skin or genitalia seems like it would be an unusual fetish, but I don't judge.  I've watched my share of tentacle porn, AoT isn't that. 

 

About the most disturbing anime I've seen is Evangelion, which is a bit like AoT would be if it had giant robots instead of giants, and if it were ten times as cruel to its young protagonists while also leaning really hard into Jungian psychology.  I understand that even more disturbing anime exists, but I'm not seeking it out.

[Grailknight]

The last Evangelion movie is really good and puts the series and universe to bed in a satisfactory way. Shippers were upset though. Free on Amazon Prime.

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

Shippers are always upset. That's kind of their existence. 

[rravenwood]

On 6/12/2022 at 12:52 PM, Lord Liaden said:

To me Attack on Titan is grotesque and disgusting, with their leering, sexless giant cannibalistic mockeries of humanity expressing some component of the Japanese cultural zeitgeist I can't relate to or grasp. That's not my response to gore or nudity as such, but I feel like I'm watching the working out of some sort of fetish beyond my comprehension. But as you might expect from that, I didn't get very far into the series, so I'm not aware of whatever other depths or complexities may have arisen that make it worthwhile to others to keep watching. You have a right to enjoy whatever you find harmlessly entertaining, but I won't be joining you.

 

And that's totally OK, I'm not trying to strongarm you or anyone else into watching it, I only wished to give my own perspective on it as a roundabout response to death tribble's question.  I can completely respect that it was not something with any appeal to you.

[Pariah]

While I still revere Christopher Reeve as the quintessential Superman, I have to admit that Superman III and Superman IV were both terrible, terrible movies.

[Ternaugh]

1 minute ago, Pariah said:

While I still revere Christopher Reeve as the quintessential Superman, I have to admit that Superman III and Superman IV were both terrible, terrible movies.

 

Superman Returns assumes that both Superman III and Superman IV didn't happen, kind of like Highlander 2.

[Pariah]

Well, while we're on the subject, I guess I should reveal that I didn't think Superman Returns was anything special either. I'm not sure who that guy with the cape was, but he darn sure wasn't the Superman that I remember.

[Ternaugh]

55 minutes ago, Pariah said:

Well, while we're on the subject, I guess I should reveal that I didn't think Superman Returns was anything special either. I'm not sure who that guy with the cape was, but he darn sure wasn't the Superman that I remember.

 

My copy of Superman Returns was included in a three-pack of Blu-ray movies, which also included Superman and Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut. While I've watched the other movies several times, Superman Returns basically is the movie equivalent of Pratchett's dwarf bread:

 

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The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you'd rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot.

 

[Bazza]

Superman Returns Is a reasonably good Superman film. For instance Man of Steel was worse. 

[Grailknight]

Gotta strongly disagree here, Man of Steel's problems were tied up in the philosophical questions about the nature of heroism.

 

Superman Returns features :

 

Superman having a baby mama. That he doesn't know about even though it's Lois.

 

Lex Luthor getting out on parole after 5 years because Superman was not there to testify at his parole hearing. Somehow I don't think you'd be eligible after stealing two nuclear missiles and launching them at New Jersey and California.  He'd be hoping to see sunlight, let alone lawyers and a parole board.

 

Repeating the same get rich quick land scheme of the first movie in an even more inept fashion. In the first movie he at least had bought up all the worthless desert land east of the San Andreas Fault, You can't buy what was beforehand stretches of international waters and you can't claim it as a sovereign state as a private citizen(especially one with his criminal record) 

[Lord Liaden]

I could rationalize responses to those points, but it isn't worth the effort, because it still wasn't well executed. My biggest problem with Superman Returns is that it was too reverential to the Donner films. It constantly echoed them instead of telling its own story, and was nearly devoid of the humor that had infused them.

 

Also, while Brandon Routh was very effective at channeling Chris Reeve's Clark Kent, IMHO he was too young and inexperienced to convey the nobility and conviction of Reeve's Superman. But when he returned to the role in a CW supers-show crossover a few years ago, he was far better at that part of it.

 

 

[Matt the Bruins]

I saw Superman IV: The Quest for Peace in the theater with a friend and we gave it the Statler & Waldorf treatment (this was before Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a thing). I think the audience enjoyed our heckling more than the movie.

[death tribble]

I forgot to mention Hostel Part 3.

I have seen parts of this and was revolted. Murdering someone who is disabled for an audience (in the film) and murdering others for a select audience (in the film) is really repulsive.

[Clonus]

On 6/6/2022 at 7:44 AM, Michael Hopcroft said:

The original The Pink Panther is rarely seen today. The remake is probably epic bad, but the original is a deft sp[oof on the "gentleman thief".  Yes, Peter Sellers did take over the film, and yes he was brillirant and played a brilliantly-drawn character. But an aging David Niven is great too.

 

I have not inflicted Steve Martin's Clouseau on myself. No doubt the film is as bad as I heard it is, because lightning can be made to fill the bottle only once. It's clear, though, that he loves the history and the character,.

 

 

I have watched Steve Martin's Clouseau.  It's not as bad as you've heard.  I woudn't rank it among the worst movies I've ever seen.  But it just isn't great.  

[Michael Hopcroft]

2 hours ago, Clonus said:

 

I have watched Steve Martin's Clouseau.  It's not as bad as you've heard.  I woudn't rank it among the worst movies I've ever seen.  But it just isn't great.  

Steve Martin has made a habit of making tributes to the comics that inspired him growing up and mastering his art.  They are usually box office poison, yet they get green-lit anyway. So we have Martin playing Clouseau in a movie nobody was really expected to see. Evidently enough people saw it anyway that a sequel was made. There have also been similar responses to his Phil Silvers tribute Sgt. Bilko.

 

He's not the only one. Dan Ackroyd's Blues Brothers 2000 was an open, heartfelt "Thanks you" for the music he loves so much (to the point that he has a second career as a music scholar). It was a flop, but the soundtrack must have been incredible. And both of Nathan Lane's greatest Broadway hits were new takes on characters played and owned by Zero Mostel.